The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016

52.—(1) In Schedule 5 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (non-domestic rating: exemption), paragraph 16 is amended as follows. E+W

(2) For sub-paragraph (2)(1) substitute—

“(2) For the purposes of this paragraph in its application to hereditaments in Wales, a person is disabled if he is disabled within the meaning of section 3 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014.”

(3) For sub-paragraph (4)(2) substitute—

“(4) “Welfare services for disabled persons” means services or facilities (by whomsoever provided)—

(a) of a kind which a local authority in England had power to provide under section 29 of the National Assistance Act 1948 before it ceased to apply to local authorities in England;

(b) of a kind which a local authority in Wales has power to provide, or arrange to provide, to an adult in the exercise of its functions under sections 35 or 36 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014.”

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 52 in force at 6.4.2016, see reg. 2(1)

(1)

Sub-paragraph (2) was amended by S.I. 2015/914, Schedule, paragraph 42(1) and (3).

(2)

Sub-paragraph (4) was amended by S.I. 2015/914, Schedule, paragraph 42(1) and (4).